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...cultural isolation-speak a nonstandard English (linguists call it "dialectolalia") with common characteristics. They may slur words as in "sawrat" (it's all right), "sisfirshear" (it's his first year) and "smothertam" (some other time). The sounds of f and r may be dropped as "hep yo sef" or "sistah." The th sound turns to f: "bofe" for both. Errant grammar includes "he be absent," "he do," "my mother, she done gone...
...Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin-yo aru hikeshi otoko-"the trustworthy man who puts out fires." Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina goes to Moscow this week to sign Russo-Japanese air and trade agreements, and, he, too, promised to urge upon the Kremlin the U.S. brief. Pope Paul, continuing the Vatican's campaign...
...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
...battle progresses, the ship suffers her first fatality. At a dimly lit spot on the far rail of the ship, the muffled voice of a chaplain is heard, a bass drum rolls, and a splash sounds over the starboard side. Later on, men are heard practicing their bathroom baritones ("Yo-ho, Pagliacci, I got a waterproof watchee") when a torpedo strikes. There is a rending of metal, an explosion, and finally the sucking sound of water rushing through a hole. The singing stops. All four men died in the shower room...
...emerge wearing high, tan moccasins, skintight, sky-blue pants and flowing fuchsia shirt. Scattered about the living room are effects that mark the mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac and Schiller next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls. And everywhere there are model train locomotives, which he collects in honor of his origin. He used his earnings of about $2,800 per performance to buy an $80,000 walled-in villa tucked away in the mountains above Monte Carlo, where...